- Jan 7, 2024
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"The value of humility can be learned through experience. But the strength of humility comes only through consistent practice."
Ransom Smythe
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Welcome to Ransom's Place
Anyone can read for themselves about the realities of God. They can even hear from others about the realities of God. But few people realize that they can experience the realities of God first-hand as He personally reveals them. When that happens a transformation occurs, and after that life is never the same.
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Ransom’s Place is a place where we declare these moments, celebrate these moments, and help people experience their own moments. Some of you may have had a sense of these moments while reading Abomey. That’s why you are here right now.
You’ve come hoping to see if it was some kind of freakish accident. If possible, you want to experience it again. And it's true … YOU CAN! If at any point while reading Abomey you said to yourself, “Hmm, I hadn’t thought of it that way before”, then this website is for you.
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"Pride is a poison that causes a person to look at their life and call it, 'My Precious.' Humility is the only antidote."
Ransom Smythe
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"He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is stupid. Shun him.
He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is good. Teach him.
He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Arouse him.
He that knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
About Ransom
Ransom is a family man, a friend, a physician, a churchman. He loves people and he loves life. He loves figures of speech. So, he loves to tell stories.
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When he was a junior in high school he had an experience that was foundational to his life.
He remembers it vividly. He was sitting on the floor in his bedroom listening to record albums with a friend. Those record albums are old now but they were new then. He and his friend weren't talking. They were just listening. Listening not only to the lyrics and music of each song but also to the messages embedded in them. His friend had reached the summit of childhood and was about to graduate from high school; then he would crest that summit and head off to college. In that moment, they both stood on that summit together looking back and looking forward. On that summit, it was natural for them to be focusing on both the past and what lay shrouded in the shadowy uncertain future. They were reflecting on what had been and taking a serious look at the paths ahead that would either shape their destinies or would be shaped by them. Naturally, echoes of purpose and meaning were calling out to them from within those shadows.
It was in those moments that Ransom's personality, talents, abilities, and passions based on his past crafted a bridge that shot out into that shadowy uncertain future, and it wasn't subtle. Through the years he has described it as an extremely dense, heavy feeling of "ought". The density was at least visceral if not palpable. He knew he had something others longed for and that he had to share. It was what his life ought to be about.
Over the next forty-some years, his perspectives were shaped by his experiences, increases in his knowledge, and strengthening in his passions. He has had opportunities to lead small groups and speak from stages in both secular and sacred settings. He has been asked to bring those perspectives and share them while sitting on various boards of churches and organizations. Then about 10 years ago while in the midst of many of these opportunities, he began to write. Through those writings, he developed characters that are central to his story Abomey. He has already begun a second work using those characters and has ideas for a few more. They are just some of the stories that he believes he ought to share.
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